Text and image generation will keep existing in the long run.

Other aspects may collapse, but those tools are too useful for many businesses and individuals.

Worked at company, forget the name (Williams something?) but they were the peak IT when I started my career in Tulsa, 2000 or so. They were laying fiber, but mostly lighting dark fiber. They were the future! Best employer in town! Crashed and burned, hard.

But as you said, those resources were laid to be exploited. Guess whoever figures out how to exploit the coming AI wreckage will lead the next wave of tech. Is that even going to be possible?!

Funny story; My camp is outside a town of 900 souls, most of those in the surrounding countryside. The ISP just ran fiber! There's a stub-out at the end of my "block"! Totally uninhabited but for my weekly visits, but imagine that. Fiber everywhere now.

All I got is to start a small business consulting, fixing and installing for small business. Did that on the side 12-years ago and it was amazing how fast business owners jumped when offered services for a reasonable price.

We could go on-call for a monthly fee. $200/mo. per customer stacks quickly. But you have to get a feel for your customers, set expectations and fire the skinflints. If you don't have people skills, this is a non-starter. I got people skills, no business skills.

Been there, done that, know myself, not motivated enough. Give me a time and place to be, give me work, give me a paycheck and benefits, I'll knock it out the park. But if I gotta get out of bed and knock doors, again, I got the people skills, but I can't self motivate.

Help bring back the free and open internet before it’s completely lost.

Forget having a high salary, most of us will never have that at all or again after what they do to us.

A former colleague of mine started a farm 5 years ago. He wrote a few apps to help him with the process and even launched one to help reach customers directly.

I do not use iOS devices and could not take a look, but if you are curious, here is the app page: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/arivon/id6742965675

And here is his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karunanithi-ranganadhan-65a60028/

More than a decade of programming. Few years of farming. I am wishing him success - as I might be asking for a framing job from him if this trend continues...

Create a Open Source project for something that bothers you personally (something useful) and apply for one of the Open Collective, Nlnet, Prototype Fund, Techcultivation, ...

Yes, the market right now is bent toward large existing players. There is room for competition for Lyft and Uber for example. If you can find workarounds for regulatory obstacles.